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Even after Nvidia downplayed their original report that GeForce 8400-8700 cards were failing in large numbers due to overheating, Dell has issued a BIOS update for all of its machines running the affected GPUs anyway. The update tweaks the fan settings to “regulate temperature fluctuations” to keep the maybe-faulty-maybe-not chips cooler. So who do we…
Researchers in Japan and at Penn State have come up with a ceramic material that allows people to heat up their food twice as fast, allowing them to spend less time staring at the microwave and more time living their (read: our) rich, fulfilling lives. The new cookers are made up of 20% magnetite and…
Warner Bros. didn’t want to lose one penny off of the precious early box office gross for The Dark Knight (one that traditionally favors Hollywood in the split over movie theaters), so they reportedly spent 6 months developing an anti-piracy plan to keep the film off filesharing sites for as long as possible. And through…
Freecom’s just taken the portable hard drive crown with what they’re claiming to be the smallest and lightest 2.5-inch USB drive on the market now. Their Mobile Drive XXS comes in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB sizes, and is bus-powered for one less thing you have to carry around. It seems like the race to having…
Would you kick a crippled person just as they were standing on their feet, about to walk for the first time in years? AT&T would! Against all odds, WiMax just might make it, pending the merger of Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax divisions. So AT&T filed with a petition with the FCC to block it. The…
WhiteKnightTwo, which will shuttle SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space, is about to be unveiled in the Mojave desert. I believe that’s SpaceShipTwo under the veil. Update: More Photos of WhiteKnightTwo below. Interview with a spaceship pilot. https://gizmodo.com/interview-virgin-galactic-pilot-space-pilot-5030019 Actually it’s a flight simulator for pilot training. Virgin America pilots will be trained to fly Virgin Galactic flights,…
We didn’t see you around these here parts this weekend at Gizmodo. Were you busy at Comic-Con? Looks like you were! Here’s what you missed, Mr. Stark: • Who cares about the corny name, Tr2n looks sharp. Must watch. • Steve Jobs’ health is none of your damn business. • Nokia’s new Tube handset got…
Some leaky monkey at or near Microsoft has just dumped the new Xbox 360 Dashboard "Experience", also known as the fall update, onto the internet. For most of us, this means that that we’ve got new videos like the one above that illustrate some of the features we didn’t get to see at E3. For…
For those of you who’ve looked around their apartment and thought, “You know what this place needs? A lamp that’s modeled after my eyeball!”—your day has finally come. 5.5 Designers will create your own custom hand-blown glass eye. You fill out their order form picking from various eye color swatches and including some pics of…
Oh, the cruelty-German pre-order customers still waiting for their iPhone 3Gs to be delivered apparently received this sick little joke in the mail instead, obviously inspired by reader Matt’s original papercraft iPhone he made to quell the anticipation for the first launch. My German is, well, I don’t speak it, but Google does, and it…
Ah, the great outdoors. Nothing says summer like heading out in your canoe. Especially if said canoe has been modified with a small electric motor that’s controllable via a Wiimote. That’s right, nerds: now you can use your mad Wii skills to help you avoid the horrible exertion that comes from paddling. Unfortunately, it’s just…
You’re probably familiar with Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary group that works in warzones and doesn’t allow itself to be held back by silly things like ethics or respect for human life. Well, they’re looking to hire some new mercenaries, and they know that they want people with wartime experience. That means troops. How do you…
You know how dumb you feel when somehow your phone is set off in your pocket, and you leave a 25-minute voicemail message for someone random? Imagine how awkward it’d be to set off this gizmo in your pocket, only to have the Dark Knight himself rock up in the Batmobile, ready to fight danger…
The United States has just fallen to China in that whole I-have-more-people-on-the-internet-than-you battle. Because according to numbers* by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country now has 253 million people online-that’s 30 million more than we have in the United States. And by 2012, China expects that number to swell all the way…
EroGear is an LED clothing startup that embeds bright, eye-burning lights in otherwise drab cotton. And while their current LED jackets look perfect for late night runners and bicyclists, EroGear is actually courting a different group given the high price tag—the DJ who’s looking to distinguish himself in a dark nightclub. The only downside is…
Acting as a one-stop repository for all things Wii homebrew, the Wii Pack Generator brought to you by the WiiBrew folks is a handy aggregator for all of the various homebrew apps scattered around the Web. Just click the checkboxes next to the software you want (including getting things started with the Homebrew Channel via…
Bless Brando for coming up with something that sounds amazingly useful at last: a “replacement LCD Display for your iPhone 3G.” That’s all the info there is, strangely, but assuming it’s a good quality LCD with touchscreen, it’ll no doubt be massively handy if your new toy has had an unfortunate screen-snapping incident. There’s also…
OK, it’s a bit dramatic for us to say “coming never,” but we shouldn’t expect Wiis in multiple snazzy colors (you know, the ones promised by Nintendo when the Wii was announced) or a redesigned DS (it could be RAZR-thin!) anytime soon. Instead, it sounds like Nintendo is more focused on getting each device “into…
In his apparently final transmission, the Zune Guy reveals that it wasn’t just the lack of a Zune announcement at E3 that choked the last pepperoni-scented fanboy breath out of his furry, tattooed frame. No, he "can kinda smell" that Microsoft is "slowly pulling out of a product," and "backing away from what they created."…
Click to viewIn a twist of destiny, John Mayer-the guy who writes to Apple Support saying “Hey guys, John Mayer here” and actually gets replies back-had to turn into tech support guy after his dad called saying “Hey, John Mayer‘s dad here.” The musician tried to guide his father through Mac OS X in order…